Days after her senior Cabinet colleague Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Aripta Mukherjee were arrested for keeping unexplained `50 crore in cash and her senior party leader and national executive member Anubrata Mondal was picked up by the CBI for his alleged role in cattle smuggling case, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she has dream of an India which is free from hunger, where women could live without fear and children could see the light of education.
Taking to the Twitter on the occasion of 75th anniversary of India’s Independence Banerjee wrote, “I have a dream for India! For the people, I want to builda nation where no one goes hungry, where no woman feels unsafe, where every child sees the light of education, where all are treated equally, where no oppressive forces divide the people & harmony defines the day,” adding it was her “promise “it is my promise to the people of this great nation that I shall strive everyday for our dream India.”
In a statement that once again tended to speak about her pan Indian plans Banerjee who had suddenly withdrawn into a shell following the arrests of two of her senior party members—Chatterjee TMCstrongman Mondal— on Monday sounded more assertive writing about her pan Indian design plans.
While a senior Left politician said her latest tweet “is aimed at the national opposition parties — asking them not to write her off in the race of leadership when it comes to opposition unity — but she has lost that chance after Partha Chatterjee’s arrest and more so after she openly supported Anubrata Mondal who is named in cattle smuggling.”
The BJP leadership went a step ahead asking her first to “fend off Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation and then dream for India.” Senior saffron leader Dilip Ghosh said how “the CM herself appealed to her supporters from a public meeting in Behala to remain by her side if she were to be arrested.